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Dean and canons of the church of St Buryan, Cornwall. King and council. The dean...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/92/4565

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Reference
SC 8/92/4565
Date
[1318]
Description
Petitioners
Dean and canons of the church of St Buryan, Cornwall.
Addressees
King and council.
Nature of request
The dean and canons request that the justices in a case that they have pending before them in the Bench against the bishop of Exeter, be ordered to proceed to judgement as the case has been pending for five years or more, and in the meantime the bishop has been exercising all manner of jurisdiction of ordinary in the chapel against their liberty to their ruin.
Nature of endorsement
It is ordered to Scrope and his associates by writ that they should proceed without delay to render judgment, and if there should be difficulties so that they are unable to proceed, then the record is to be sent into parliament according to the form of the ordinance this Monday next after the feast of St Dunstan and the king and his council will consider what is to be done.
Places mentioned
St Buryan, Cornwall
Exeter diocese.
People mentioned
Walter [Stapledon], Bishop of Exeter
Richard Beaupree, the king's commissioner
Henry le Scrop (Scrope), justice.
Note
The petition can be dated to 1318, as the plea seems to have been initiated in c. 1314 (CCW 1244-1326, pp.402-3), and this was five years into the plea. In addition a later endorsement, which appears to have been put on this petition when it was part of a larger bundle, states that these are petitions of 11 and 12 Edw. II (1317-18). A later petition by the same petitioners on the same matter dates to 1322 and considered it to be eight years into the plea (SC 8/91/4528).
Related material

For a petition by the bishop of Exeter on the same matter, see SC 8/8/361

For a later petition by the same petitioners on the same matter see SC 8/91/4528

For a petition of the dean and chapter of St Buryan on the same matter, see SC 8/257/12814

For transcript, see no.7 of PRO 31/7/95

For an earlier petition by the bishop of Exeter requesting remedy in his dispute concerning St Buryan see SC 8/110/5464

For a letter to Queen Isabella concerning petitions on this matter, see SC 8/33/1628

For a petition of the dean of St Buryan on the same matter, see SC 8/33/1629

For a petition by same petitioners on the same matter, see SC 8/318/E351

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 555
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
  • Calendar of Chancery Warrants, 1244-1326, (Public Record Office, 1927), pp.402-3 (mandate to the justices to do what can be done to save the king's interests in this matter)
  • Calendar of Close Rolls, Edw II, vol. II, 1313-1318, (Public Record Office, 1893), p.624 (prohibition to the bishop of Exeter in exercising jurisdiction in the chapel, with an order to the sheriff on the same)
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